Rational Belief in Lottery- and Preface-Situations
Gerhard Schurz
Abstract
Rational agents represent their beliefs about the world in two rather different ways. One way is by means of qualitative beliefs, or yes-or-no beliefs: Here a proposition p is either believed, or disbelieved (i.e., ¬p is believed), or belief about p is suspended. Thereby, with "rational belief that p" it is meant that the proposition p is believed to be true, or accepted as being true, whereby the system of beliefs satisfies certain rationality conditions.
Topics & Concepts
PropositionRationalityLotteryEpistemologyBelief systemPsychologySocial psychologyPhilosophyMathematicsStatisticsArtificial Intelligence in GamesMulti-Agent Systems and NegotiationEpistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics